Judicial Reputation: A Comparative Theory

by Tom Ginsburg and Nuno Garoupa

Book Overview

Judges are society's elders and experts, our masters and mediators. We depend on them to dispense justice with integrity, deliberation, and efficiency. Yet judges, as Alexander Hamilton famously noted, lack the power of the purse or the sword. They must rely almost entirely on their reputations to secure compliance with their decisions, obtain resources, and maintain their political influence.

In Judicial Reputation, Nuno Garoupa and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022647870X
• ISBN13: 9780226478708
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"